Stephen K. Bannon

Believe me, there's multiple countries in the world that own the means to track that in real time.

And so if you, by doctrine,

If you try to get that entire amphibious group within a range of them starting to discharge their troops, they're going to be heavily and highly targeted for the same reason that they pulled the carrier air wing back

mysteriously after the laundry fire on board the USS Ford.

So highly dangerous to put amphibious troops into that area because of there's so many precision missiles.

And obviously there's no surprise left

If they somehow manage to get all those Marines off and move them somewhere else to launch an amphibious operation to try to force open the Straits of Hormuz, maybe.

But hard to do deception now.

And second, they truly don't have maritime superiority when the Iranians can launch as many missiles, drones, and suicide vessels against them as they can.

Could you actually do a – without active Arab support, could you actually take Karg Island from the – could you actually go to Karg Island unless you got the LHAs, unless you got the amphibious ready group, at least part of the contingent into the Persian Gulf?

Or would you do it standoff and station the helicopters and the Osprey, I guess?

It's some, you know, up in Qatar, you know, to that point, you know, up by Qatar in Iran.

In Iran, yes.

iraq i mean is that as i recall that that mu would have a maximum of 10 v22s on board um and so you're not going to move more than 20 or 30 troops per lift so yeah your initial assault in the karg island is going to be mighty thin because those aircraft have to cycle and that's assuming you don't have any losses from maintenance or from missiles um uh do you do a mass drop of the 82nd on the karg island

Again, that's pretty sporty.

And an airborne invasion in a place that has thousands and thousands of missiles, not to mention the Iranians have been learning.

They've certainly been paying attention to modern drone warfare and have certainly implemented FPVs down to the squad level.

I mean, you see videos of the Israelis in Southern Lebanon losing tanks, losing armored personnel carriers to the same FPVs that the Russians have been using with great effect in Ukraine.

So it is, again,

A fight against Iran, they're not Arabs.